Posts Tagged ‘Team Korea’

Let’s meet the team – there’s a white boy, a white boy, a white boy, a white boy, and a white boy:

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Hey, why don’t they call themselves Team North Korea, cause, you know, that would be just as accurate.

Or, indeed, Team Kyrgyzstan, you know, whatever.

(There was an idea to have actual Koreans on Team Korea. First, it was going to be 30% Korean, and then 15% and then after those proposals got shot down we’re back to the original requirement of 0% Korean. And if you think China Team is Chinese, well…)

Oh what’s that, it’s where the boat was made is what counts? But isn’t this a spec race with all the boats basically the same?

The World Wonders.

Now, speaking of Team Korea, let’s check in:

You’ll note that this Tweet was “promoted” by purported Korean Mark Bulkeley, so that his banal message would go out to more than just his few dozen Followers. One could assume that one Markie B. was paying some hard-earned won or quid or whatever they use for money wherever he’s from or pretends he’s from, but he says he Tweets his unsolicited Tweets at no charge.

Perhaps the City and County of San Francisco is picking up the Tweeting bills of all the “professional sailors” involved in the America’s Cup scrimmage races?

Speaking of which, how much is each Sailor costing San Francisco taxpayers? About $100,000, $200,000 each? It’s like welfare for the “sailing community,” huh?

Speaking of which, isn’t the America’s Cup a big disappointment already? I think it is.

So it’s “NASCAR on the bay” complete with faked incidents for the cameras (like last year’s pitchpole near Alcatraz – that’s the first thing they show on the broadcast that nobody wants to pay for) and yet still nobody’s interested.

OK fine.

P.S. Nobody cares about anything related to the America’s Cup, you’ll see. They had a scrimmage down in San Diego not too long ago and nobody showed. Anyway, this whole deal is kind of a fraud. You’ll see.